My (19M) aunt is a chronic shopaholic, and constant victim of the circumstances she puts herself in. This I can accept. She can do her own thing away from me and I'm fine with it. However, she always insists on giving me TONS of the WORST most USELESS gifts. Just shit I'll never use or wear. It's mostly stuff from Hot topic because ONE TIME when I was 14 I said I liked it. I don't even dislike Hottopic now, like there's some cool tshirts there, its just that she picks out the most god ugly shit! Just like Nightmare before Christmas and Disney adult crap. I don't even like Disney, nor ever expressed any interest in it. She also gets me a lot of stuffed animals? And like toys? She treats me like I'm 11 and it makes me feel terrible. She sees me, she sees what I wear, she's seen my room, shes known me my whole life.

All of this would be slightly better if I lived anywhere near a mall, or some place to return all of it, but I don't. I'm in college for the majority of the year, which is two hours away from the nearest mall. The worst part is, "chronic shopaholic" is genuinely the only way to describe the way she shops. I get these fucking assanine gifts on EVERY HOLIDAY, including the ones where your not even supposed to give gifts on! And there's a truckful every time. She goes to the mall EVERY DAY and buys tons of shit, it accumulates, and then she passes it off on me!

I've talked to my mom about this, and every time I bring it up she basically says, "Aren't you greatful you have an aunt that cares?" and/or "Nothing we can do about it." Excuse me? Your sister is ruining her own life, filling up all of our lives with useless junk, and we should just be greatful? Regardless, I feel like such a jerk every time I complain. I'm glad she cares in her own way, but it's really destructive. I'm mostly upset because my house is already small, and the clutter/enclosed space gives me panic attacks. Am I an asshole for complaining about this 😭